Large-scale Shima

1. Front. Single pattern, repeated with no rotation or mirror imaging.

1. Back. Single pattern, repeated with no rotation or mirror imaging.

2. Back. Single pattern mirrored horizontally and vertically.

3. Before felting. Single pattern mirrored horizontally and vertically

4. Single pattern, repeated with no rotation or mirror imaging.

4. Detail.

These samples are all 300 stitches wide and 360 stitches tall. 300 stitches wide is the limitation of the Shima equipment. All samples are made with settings mentioned in the previous Shima blog.

Sample 1: Monofilament and white lycra.
Sample 2: Monofilament and white lycra.
Sample 3: Monofilament and fine felting yarn.
Sample 4: !00% Wool and cream lycra.

An artist who uses monofilament and creates striking textures in her work is Cathy De Monchaux.

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Shima Seiki

I scanned one of my drawings and converted it to index colour in photoshop, having reduced the size to 80x90 pixels. 80x90 pixels is the standard sampling size.

Some areas are slightly 'untidy', this is normally fixed; however I like this style as it gives interesting texture when working with two different yarns.
For example, Lycra will pull in, leaving the other yarn to ruche and contort.

Sample one: mohair and lycra. (disconnected digital stitch roller)
Sample two: mohair and felting yarn.
Sample three: mohair and stronger lycra (disconnected digital stitch roller)
Sample four: mohair and elastic

S1 (file name) Stitch 50 (tension)
Structure: Two colour ladder-back

I used one 'control' yarn and four different yarns with different properties. By using one yarn the same every time I was able to assess how the lycras, elastic and felting yarn affected the fabric.

See sample section 012